Quotes by Billy Eichner

Billy Eichner

A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

Character

Rocks

Thinking

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance. There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

Careers

Hollywood

People

Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

Awards

Fun

Watches

By TV standards – I’m not comparing it to manual labor by any means – by TV comedy standards, it is the hardest job I will ever, ever have. There is nothing that could be harder. I mean, when you combine the amount of writing that has to be done – sharp writing – with the fact that you then take it to the street and improvise with both celebrities who have no idea what’s going to happen and real people who are not actors or comedians who don’t even know I’m about to talk to them… It’s lightning in a bottle every time.

Jobs

Real

Writing

Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.

Difficult

Metrics

People

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.

Actors

Outgoing

Sound

I am invisible in gay bars.

Bars

Gay

Invisible

I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

College

New York

Struggle

I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.

Caring

Eczema

Too Much

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

Actors

Firsts

Singing

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Bars

Cameras

Careers

Caring

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Children

Class

College

Crazy

Dancer

Difficult

Eczema

Ensemble

Fighting

Firsts

Fun

Gay

Guy

Hollywood

Important

Inspired

Invisible

Jobs

Kids

Making Money

Media

Metrics

Mitzvah

Months

Moving

New York

Oscars

Outgoing

Parent

Party

People

Real

Rocks

Singing

Sound

Struggle

Thinking

Together

Too Much

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Quotes by Billy Eichner

Billy Eichner

A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance. There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.

I am invisible in gay bars.

I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

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